Favourite science websites, amazing facts, awesome videos and more effing great SCIENCE!

[Macadamia]

Some of my favorite sights are:

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[MikeMcc]

Daily stories on latest papers:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/

 

[alsoknownas]

Misc web sight,- has lots of information on genetics.

Yikes, this site is full of dodgy borderline-racist poop.

 

[dylans]

This is a really good site. Informative and funny and I like scientists who swear a lot

Shit You Didn't Know About Biology
http://sydkab.wordpress.com/

 

[Meltingpot]

A series of videos about the chemical elements, from the staff and postgrad students of Nottingham Uni's chemistry department. These are great and Prof. Martin Poliakoff seems quite a character;

http://www.periodicvideos.com/

The most reactive elements make the most spectacular videos, obviously, but even so I was surprised at just how violent the reaction of the caesium pellet with water was. The fluorine - no, I won't spoil it for you.

 

[FaradayCaged]

http://www.physicsworld.com/ News website from the IOP (Institute of Physics)

http://www.sixtysymbols.com Physics and Astronomy Videos (same guy as periodicvideos in Meltingpots post above)

http://www.numberphile.com Mathematics Videos by the guy who does sixty symbols (same guy again)

http://www.test-tube.org.uk/ Biology Videos (same guy)

http://www.deepskyvideos.com/ Observational Astronomy Videos (same guy)

http://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics Physics Videos by a guy working at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

 

[Sputwang]

Macadamia's racist link on post #31 is still there. Just in case someone wants to remove it.

 

[NoXion]

Atomic Rockets - Very interesting site that takes a hard science fiction approach.

Atlas Of The Universe - Self-explanatory, very good for getting a sense of the universe's scale.

Rocketpunk Manifesto - A blog dealing with topics relating to the first link.

Centauri Dreams - Tracks current research on topics relating to space exploration and interstellar travel.

Bad Astronomy - Airs out myths and misconceptions in astronomy and related topics. Also has a blog.

 

[Ralph Llama]

The Global conciousness project.

bout 20 years ago i was watching late night bbc2`s open university, where I witnessed the A / B partical experiment and also an interesting experiment where minds concentrating on a random number generator( not random : no algorythm : just feeds back the movment/state of a sub atomic partical) altered the output.
These guys have placed Eggs(RNG`s) around the planet ... 70 of them to give supposed coverage. Make of it what you will



The Global Consciousness Project

check this out as well to balance out the OTT ideas

Long-running Global Consciousness Study results said to be significant

 

[editor]

I'll resurrect this thread with this interesting tweet

 

[editor]

And follow up with these beauts:






https://twitter.com/AvatarDomy/status/1282188143270273026

 

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[two sheds]

You'd think all the water would drain away

 

[CNT36]

Found this amusing this morning.

While current approaches tend to focus on separating livestock from wild carnivores, for instance through fencing or lethal control, this is not always possible or desirable. Alternative and effective non-lethal tools that protect both large carnivores and livelihoods are urgently needed.

In a new study we describe how painting eyes on the backsides of livestock can protect them from attack

 

[editor]

 

[Jay Park]

someone’s buried Dad

 

[petee]

 

[Jay Park]

Hurricane alley is it?

 

[Ponyutd]

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[Mation]

Plants are hiding from us

Plant evolves to become less visible to humans

A plant used in traditional Chinese medicine has evolved to become less visible to humans, new research shows.

phys.org

Scientists found that Fritillaria delavayi plants, which live on rocky slopes of China's Hengduan mountains, match their backgrounds most closely in areas where they are heavily harvested.

This suggests humans are "driving" evolution of this species into new colour forms because better-camouflaged plants have a higher chance of survival.

 

[Mation]

(I should add that I'm aware that it's that the better camouflaged plants are more likely to survive, rather than that there's a plant-based intelligent drive to hide.)

 

[2hats]

Nope.

In fact, so far...

 

[HAL9000]

kids video about Van der Waals force

 

[HAL9000]

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Plants are hiding from us

It's when the triffids do that we need to start worrying.

 

[HAL9000]

Another video featuring Van der Waals force.



The video talks about N95 masks, N95 is an American Standard. European equivalent is FFP2

European respirator standards - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Really interesting article about chalk, of all things:

Rock of ages: how chalk made England | Geology | The Guardian

 

[yield]

Really interesting article about chalk, of all things:

Rock of ages: how chalk made England | Geology | The Guardian

The study of chalk is what is sometimes termed “soft rock” geology. Soft rock experts study “sedimentary rocks such as sandstones and limestones, while their “hard rock” counterparts work on the tough igneous and metamorphic rocks such as granites and slates. The categories aren’t perfect, but the jargon sticks. Rivalry sometimes ensues.

I once met a retired sedimentary geologist who argued that “soft rock men” are always the more thoughtful. It came, he mused, from thinking about the formation of sedimentary rocks. One rock unit formed from the quiet accretion of layers of sediment over many millions of years. The slow, slow formation of worlds. And what about hard rock geologists? I asked him. “Hard rock men are all bastards,” he said.

 

[editor]

The ongoing journey of the the Voyagers:

"Our original goal was to determine with a very high precision which stars the Voyagers might one day closely encounter using the at the time newly released Gaia catalog of stars," Oberg said during his presentation. So he and his co-author began by tracing the Voyagers' journeys to date and projecting their trajectories out into the future.

But don't get excited for any upcoming milestones. Not until about 20,000 years from now will the Voyagers pass through the Oort cloud — the shell of comets and icy rubble that orbits the sun at a distance of up to 100,000 astronomical units, or 100,000 times the average Earth-sun distance — finally waving goodbye to its solar system of origin.

"At that point for the first time the craft will begin to feel the gravitational pull of other stars more strongly than that of our own sun," Oberg said.

It's another 10,000 years before the spacecraft actually come near an alien star, specifically a red dwarf star called Ross 248. That flyby will occur about 30,000 years from now, Oberg said, although it might be a stretch to say that the spacecraft will pass by that star. "It's actually more like Ross 248 shooting past the nearly stationary Voyagers," he said.

By 500 million years from now, the solar system and the Voyagers alike will complete a full orbit through the Milky Way. There's no way to predict what will have happened on Earth's surface by then, but it's a timespan on the scale of the formation and destruction of Pangaea and other supercontinents, Oberg said.

Throughout this galactic orbit, the Voyager spacecraft will oscillate up and down, with Voyager 1 doing so more dramatically than its twin. According to these models, Voyager 1 will travel so far above the main disk of the galaxy that it will see stars at just half the density as we do.

Scientists' predictions for the long-term future of the Voyager Golden Records will blow your mind

Buckle up, everyone, and let's take a ride on a universe-size time machine.

www.space.com

 

[dessiato]

Great thread. I've hours of reading/watching/learning ahead of me.